"And those who complain that it is a waste to spend money in space forget that NASA creates jobs. According to the agency, it employs roughly 19,000 civil servants and 40,000 contractors in and around its 10 centers. In the San Francisco Bay area alone, the agency says it created 5,300 jobs and $877 million worth of economic activity in 2009. Ohio, a state hard-hit by the Great Recession that is home to NASA’s Plum Brook Research Station and Glenn Research Center, can’t lose nearly 7,000 jobs threatened by NASA cuts."
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Eric Sterner in his article Five Top Myths about NASA (via xevilious)
NASA: Thy do a lot more than shoot shit into space.
